Ixelles Cemetery

Ixelles Cemetery (, ; ), located in Ixelles in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium. Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a lot of bars and restaurants for students, north of the actual cemetery. It is in fact located between the two main campuses (Solbosch/Solbos and La Plaine/Het Plein) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

Notable interments

Personalities buried there include:

• Luigi Bigiarelli (1876–1908), athlete, founder of the S.S. Lazio
• Anna Boch (1848–1936), painter
• Jules Bordet (1870–1961), Nobel Prize in medicine
• Georges Boulanger (1837–1891), French Minister of War and exile in Belgium, who committed suicide there
• Victor Bourgeois (1897–1962), architect and urban planner
• Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), artist
• Fernand Brouez (1861–1900), editor of La Société Nouvelle
• Charles De Coster (1827–1879), novelist
• Neel Doff (1858–1942), artists' model and writer
• Jean Isaac Effront (1856–1931), inventor
• Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez (1936–2015), Nigerian diplomat and business tycoon
• Édouard Louis Geerts (1846–1889), sculptor, whose tomb was designed by the architect Victor Horta and the sculptor Charles van der Stappen
• Lucette Heuseux (1913–2010), painter
• Victor Horta (1861–1947), architect
• Louis Hymans (1829–1884), journalist and politician
• Paul Hymans (1865–1941), statesman
• Joseph Jacquet (1857–1917), army general during World War I
• Sylvain de Jong (1868–1928, maker of the luxury Minerva automobile
• (1860–1903), developed an 1885 motorised tricycle
• Camille Lemonnier (1844–1913), writer
• Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), painter and sculptor
• Jean-Baptiste Moëns (1833–1908), philatelist
• Frederic Neuhaus (1846–1912), pharmacist, inventor of chocolate pralines
• Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952), architect
• Jacques Saintenoy (1845–1947), architect
• Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), chemist and industrialist, tomb designed by Victor Horta
• Carl Sternheim (1878–1942), German writer
• Marc Van Bever (1974–2010), film producer
• Joseph Wieniawski (1837–1912), composer
• Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865), painter
• Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinist

War graves

In the Field of Honour in Block A are buried First World War soldiers from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia and Great Britain (twelve identified soldiers), who died mainly as prisoners of war.

See also

• List of cemeteries in Belgium
• Anderlecht Cemetery
• Brussels Cemetery
• Laeken Cemetery
• Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Cemetery
• Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Cemetery
• Schaerbeek Cemetery

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